The Flood Mitigation Center at NJIT will perform the work with funding from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

"Our objective as an NJIT team of inter-disciplinary experts is to help the state of New Jersey to develop the best solutions to protect its citizens from future floods through innovative engineering measures that are doable, beneficial, resilient and sustainable," Taha Marhaba, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering at NJIT, said.

The NJIT project will last six months. The school will work with the US Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division, the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute and the National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering at the University of Mississippi as well as state, regional and local organizations.

In a statement, NJIT said it would "enhance rather than duplicate" efforts by other organizations.